Axl wrecks solos with onstage jokes, says Bumblefoot

GnR guitarist reveals frontman Rose likes to catch his bandmates out with wisecracks via in-ear monitors during their virtuoso moments

Welcome to the bungle: Rose, right, has made Bumblefoot, left, trash solos

Guns n’Roses frontman Axl Rose likes to catch his bandmates out by telling jokes while they’re trying to play solos, guitarist Bumblefoot reveals.

He says the singer will deliver wisecracks via the band’s in-ear monitor system just as one of them is about to embark on a virtuoso performance – and the ploy has caught the axeman out in the past.

Bumblefoot tells UGO: “Axl has got a great sense of humour. He’s a real ball-buster. Sometimes he’ll tell jokes into our monitors while we’re trying to take a solo. He’s fucked me up a few times.”

GnR’s difficult history means the guitarist has learned not to think about what will happen next, even though he joined up in time to miss the massive delays behind 2009 album Chinese Democracy.

He explains: “We hit the road, I hit the studio, we toured some more, then it came out – there was action for most of the time I was there.

“But I can’t predict anything and I don’t try. Right now we’ve got a headlining show at Rock in Rio in Brazil in October. Hopefully more info will come down the pipeline, but so far that’s what’s going on.”

Meanwhile, former GnR drummer Steven Adler has confirmed the new lineup for his band Adler’s Appetite after singer Rick Stitch and guitarist Alex Gross suddenly quit. The new frontman is Patrick Stone of Aces n’Eights and the replacement six-stringer is Lonnie Paul.

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Yea right! It sounds like a pre meditated excuse that “Guns N Roses” came up with to cover their horrible attempts at playing the original Guns N Roses songs and solos. I find it hard to believe that Axl Rose is up making jokes on stage so that one of his 35 guitar players will f@ck the solo up and make them sound worse than they already do. He’s to anal about how they sound to be trying to intentionally mess them up. If anything, he probably deducts a % of their “salary” for every mistake that they make. What a joke! The largest band out there as far as members goes and they can’t even release an album together. LOL! Mainly because they all suck and aren’t capable of putting a record out. They either need to release an album or just beat it. Who care’s about their silly Rock in Rio appearance. The only reason Axl does that is because there is already going to be a hundred thousand fans there….but they are not GNR fans, they are mostly fans of the other bands. There’s rumors all over the place that the shows the “New Guns N Roses” have played on their own didn’t even sell half of their tickets and alot of the shows had to be canceled. LOL